Effectiveness of implementing National Target Program 1719 in Dak Mil (Dak Nong)

Prioritizing investment resources in ethnic minority areas, especially resources from the National Target Program on Socio-Economic Development in Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Areas for the 2021-2030 period, Phase 1 from 2021-2025 (abbreviated as National Target Program 1719), Dak Mil district (Dak Nong province) has effectively implemented ethnic work, ethnic policies, and ethnic minority areas are improving day by day. Up to now, the infrastructure of ethnic minority areas has been spacious, the material and spiritual life of the people has been improved, and the traditional culture of ethnic groups has been preserved and promoted. On the morning of December 30, in Hanoi, the Ethnic Committee held a national conference to summarize ethnic work in 2024 and deploy tasks in 2025. Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh attended and delivered a speech at the conference. General Secretary To Lam expressed his wish that intellectuals and scientists must be the core force to bring Vietnam into the group of 3 leading countries in Southeast Asia in research and development of artificial intelligence; the group of 50 leading countries in the world in digital competitiveness and e-Government development index; There will be at least 5 digital technology enterprises on par with technology powers by 2030. The Ministry of Health proposed that the Government make May 20 every year the National Organ Donation Day, to honor the act of saving lives, and at the same time call on the community to donate tissues and organs after brain death. Giang Dong village, Ea Dah commune, Krong Nang district, Dak Lak province is mainly inhabited by Mong ethnic people. This place used to be a "hot spot" for drugs, causing many people's lives to fall into poverty, becoming a haunting fear for the community. But now, Giang Dong is full of vitality, its appearance is prosperous, people's lives are increasingly prosperous and happy, the dark traces of the past are gradually fading away. On December 30, 2024, the Population Department organized the announcement of the results of the Population Industry Logo Design Contest. "The blade of grass cannot reach the clouds, but the grass does not stop growing straight, there are limits in life that we may not be able to overcome, but that is not the reason for us to stop trying." That is the motto that Mac Luong Ha Anh, a Thai ethnic, always remembers to strive and be admitted to the Diplomatic Academy with a score of 29 in block C00 and is currently a first-year student majoring in International Relations. Tra Que vegetable village in Hoi An (Quang Nam) has just been recognized by the United Nations Tourism Organization as the best tourist village in the world, the only representative of Vietnam to receive this award in 2024. This is not only an ideal rural tourism experience space for domestic and foreign tourists, but also a highlight for Quang Nam tourism to have new steps of development, especially rural tourism. To have fish sauce buried in the ground for Tet, right from the beginning of the year, the villagers in Nghe An must choose the best fish sauce, put it in sealed bottles and bury it in the sand. Compared to regular fish sauce, underground fish sauce is more delicious and the longer it is kept, the more flavorful it becomes. On December 30, the Women's Union of Dak Ha district (Kon Tum) held a conference to evaluate the results of the implementation of Project 8 in 2024, under the National Target Program on Socio-Economic Development in Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas for the period 2021 - 2030, Phase I: From 2021 - 2025 (National Target Program 1719). According to Article 10 of Decree No. 168/2024/ND-CP, from January 1, 2025, pedestrians who cross the median strip; cross the road in an area not designated; Crossing the road without hand signals as prescribed... will be fined. Recently, on December 25, the Association of High-Tech Enterprises in Agriculture (ATE) successfully held the Congress for the 3rd term (2024-2029) and elected the Executive Committee and Inspection Committee of the association for this term. On the morning of December 30, at the International Conference Center, General Secretary To Lam chaired and delivered an important speech at the Conference to meet with intellectuals and scientists nationwide. The Ethnic and Development Newspaper respectfully introduces the full text of the General Secretary's speech.

Thanks to knowing how to apply planting and replanting coffee trees in the direction of sustainable development, many ethnic minorities in Dak Mil have escaped poverty.

Implement closely and effectively

The Party Committee and authorities at all levels of Dak Mil district have identified the task of supporting people to develop stably, especially ethnic minorities, as an important political task, so they have focused on effectively implementing national target programs to improve the lives of ethnic minorities.

Currently, Dak Mil district has been making efforts to implement 3 national target programs at the same time. In particular, to effectively implement Program 1719, the district has established a Steering Committee for national target programs for the period 2021 - 2025, assigned tasks to members and issued the Steering Committee's operating regulations. At the same time, the district assigned the Ethnic Minorities Department as the focal agency to advise and assist the Steering Committee. The People's Committees of communes and towns also completed the Steering Committees for commune-level programs to organize the implementation of programs and projects.

In the process of organizing and implementing tasks, district agencies, departments, branches and communes have coordinated and effectively implemented mechanisms and policies.

Based on the decisions, decrees, regulations, instructions and directions of the Central and the province in implementing the National Target Program 1719, the locality has issued many documents to direct and guide the implementation in the district.

Communication and information work on the National Target Program 1719 has been focused on leadership, direction and propaganda to cadres, party members, civil servants, public employees, ethnic minorities; especially for grassroots cadres, community cadres, and prestigious people, to raise awareness of the position and role of the program.

Inspection, monitoring and evaluation are also carried out closely and synchronously from the district to the grassroots level, according to the decentralization of project management and program policies. Therefore, in recent times, the implementation of the National Target Program 1719 in Dak Mil district has achieved many positive results.

According to the Plan to implement Program 1719 for the period of 2021-2025, Dak Mil district strives to increase the average income of ethnic minorities by more than 1.5 times compared to 2020. Reduce the rate of poor households in ethnic minority and mountainous areas (EM&MN) in the period by 5%; strive to have 3 villages out of extremely difficult areas, and 60% of hamlets. 100% of communes have paved roads to the commune center; 70% of villages have paved roads to the center. 100% of schools, classrooms and medical stations are solidly built; 99.3% of households have access to the national grid and other suitable sources of electricity; 85% of ethnic minorities have access to clean water; 100% of ethnic minorities have access to television and radio; Improve technical infrastructure and social infrastructure in especially disadvantaged villages and hamlets in ethnic minority and mountainous areas.

The 4th Congress of Ethnic Minorities in Dak Mil District, 2024, with the theme "Ethnic groups unite, innovate, promote advantages, potentials, integrate and develop sustainably"

Basically complete the work of settling down; arrange and relocate 90% of households that migrated without planning. Plan, arrange, relocate and relocate 60% of ethnic minority households residing in remote areas, where there is a risk of flash floods, landslides. Basically solve the shortage of residential land and production land for ethnic minorities. The rate of 5-year-old kindergarten students attending school is over 98%, primary school age students is over 97%, middle school students is over 95%, high school students is over 60%; people aged 15 and over can read and write fluently in Mandarin is over 90%.

Strengthening health care, so that ethnic minorities have access to modern health care services; continuing to control and eventually eliminate epidemics in ethnic minority and mountainous areas; 95% of ethnic minorities participate in health insurance. Over 80% of pregnant women receive regular prenatal check-ups, give birth at medical facilities or with the assistance of medical staff; reduce the rate of underweight malnourished children to below 15%. - 55% of working-age workers receive vocational training appropriate to the needs, conditions of ethnic minorities and the characteristics of ethnic minority and mountainous areas.

“In the 2021-2025 period, Dak Mil district strives to reduce the rate of poor households among ethnic minorities by 01 or more each year; 100% of poor and near-poor households receive poverty reduction support. The district strives to have 03 villages and hamlets escape from extremely difficult areas.

Preserve and develop the good traditional cultural values ​​and identities of ethnic groups; 80% of villages have community houses; 50% of villages have traditional cultural and artistic teams (clubs) that operate regularly and with quality. - Train, plan, and build a team of ethnic minority cadres, especially local ethnic minorities. Ensure the proportion of ethnic minority cadres, civil servants, and public employees is appropriate to the proportion of the ethnic minority population in each locality...

As a result, from 2022 to 2024, the district has invested in building 30 traffic axes and 04 bridges with a total length of 35 km; upgrading and renovating 07 roads and lighting lines within villages and hamlets; supporting housing for 40/54 households; providing distributed domestic water for 150/150 households, converting occupations for 100/133 households; opening 43 vocational training classes for over 1,500 workers and implementing 06 production support projects for 40 households in 3 communes in the district.

Regarding the policy of preserving and promoting the traditional cultural values ​​of ethnic minorities associated with tourism development: Restoring the Long Son communal festival, investing in renovating and repairing 07 village and hamlet cultural houses, supporting equipment for 02 cultural houses, 03 art troupes and establishing 27 folk culture clubs...

Organized 12 conferences to disseminate awareness of changing behavior in marriage in ethnic minority areas with over 700 participants; 02 training courses to improve capacity for the community with over 120 participants and classes to disseminate gender equality with over 200 participants; 01 class to disseminate law with 72 participants. Supported the construction of 01 access point, exploiting information technology in Bon Dak Lap, Dak Gan commune.

As of December 2024, the total investment capital for the National Target Program on socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas is 168/227.8 billion VND, reaching 74% of the plan for the period 2021-2025. In general, Dak Mil District has been implementing and ensuring the progress of the proposed Plan.

The intangible cultural heritage of Tinh and Then singing of the Tay and Nung people is promoted by artisans of Dak N'Drot commune, Dak Mil district in Dak Nong.

Efforts to remove difficulties and obstacles

However, the implementation of a number of projects and sub-projects under the National Target Program 1719 in Dak Mil district still faces many difficulties and problems, especially those related to the mechanisms, policies and regulations of the programs.

Typically, Project 1, after reviewing residential land, has beneficiaries but does not ensure the conditions for land support. The reason is that the supported households are living scattered on forest land, agricultural land that has not been planned for residential areas, so there are many difficulties in implementation.

As for sub-project 1 of Project 9, it has not been able to be implemented yet because there are no specific instructions...

To complete the Implementation Plan of Program 1719 for the period 2021 - 2025, currently, Dak Mil District People's Committee directs relevant departments, offices, and People's Committees of communes to strengthen coordination, promptly review difficulties and obstacles to advise and propose solutions, and promptly implement the project to promote the effective use of allocated capital.

Next, the district prioritizes focusing resources as well as integrating capital sources to implement national target programs for communes, especially communes striving to achieve advanced new rural standards, to help these communes achieve their planned goals.

Officials in charge of the cultural sector, artisans, village elders, village and hamlet chiefs and prestigious people in ethnic minority areas in the district discussed plans to preserve the culture of ethnic groups.

Mr. Nguyen Thanh Nam, Head of the Dak Mil District Ethnic Affairs Department, said that the most important solution at present is to continue to promote propaganda, raise awareness, role and responsibility of the whole society in implementing the program. In particular, heads of departments, branches and localities must enhance their responsibility in leading, directing and urging the implementation of the programs with a sense of urgency and promote the effective use of allocated funds.

In addition, the district actively directed the development of implementation plans and promptly assigned the objectives and tasks of the National Target Program 1719 to agencies and units in accordance with the actual situation of the locality. Proactively arranged local budgets to implement the program according to the regulations of the Central Government and the directives and instructions of the province. Decentralization and empowerment of localities, especially at the grassroots level, were promoted to enhance the initiative and flexibility of communes and towns in managing and organizing the implementation of the program.

With the results achieved from the implementation of ethnic work, ethnic policies, especially the effective implementation of the National Target Program 1719, the ethnic minority and mountainous areas of Dak Mil district have many positive changes in all aspects, the ethnic minority areas have benefited from the State's policies, their appearance has improved, the lives of ethnic minorities have improved, the culture and identity of ethnic minorities have been preserved and promoted; national defense, security, politics, social order and safety have been maintained, the great national unity bloc has been increasingly consolidated, Mr. Nguyen Thanh Nam, Head of the Ethnic Affairs Department of Dak Mil district shared.

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